@baffellierica
Professor of Japanese Studies- University of Manchester; Interested in religion; Japan; media; violence; religious minorities; fear; temporalities; belonging; food. PI "Fear and Belonging in Minority Buddhist Communities" http://tinyurl.com/36rnykdy
UKABS 2025 conference begins with keynote address by Prof Erica Baffelli on "Buddhism at the margins: crisis, community, and vulnerabilities" #buddhistconference #buddhism ukabs.org.uk/conferences/...
Keynote for UKABS coming up from @baffellierica.bsky.social
Truly enjoyed listening to @uomsalc.bsky.social researchers presenting their research projects at the annual SALC Research Showcase
The deadline for this CFP is today. After a request, the form will accept submissions until 10pm (not the original 5pm). Weโre meeting to go through the proposals as soon as we can so hope to get back to everyone and open registration soon.
Scottish RME teachers:
Buddhism Discovery Day: 12 June, 10am-2.30pm
University of Edinburgh
Includes Q&A with Thai Buddhist monk, meditation with Zen Buddhist priest, Buddhist Studies taster lectures, and Treasure Hunt for Buddhist art at National Museum of Scotland. Contact halle.oneal@ed.ac.uk
Coming up this week!
@uomsalc.bsky.social will be holding an online information session for potential applicants to the following schemes:
Leverhulme Early Career Fellowships,
British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowships,
Marie Skลodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships.
Link here: shorturl.at/opLFB
East Asian Studies Seminar coming up next week @uomsalc.bsky.social Iwashima, Fumi (Graduate School of Economics, Kyoto University) โShared Washing Machines in Rural Japan: Embodied Experience of the Electrification of Home Lifeโ
4-6pm Tuesday 18 March
Samuel Alexander Building A213A
Our next Fear Research Network (FeRN) seminar will be on April 2, 2025. Valentina Zagaria will present on โThe harga is the womenโs faultโ โ Fearing migrationโs revolutionary potential in a Tunisian border town" events.manchester.ac.uk/event/event:.... @uomsalc.bsky.social @uomsoss.bsky.social
2 PhD and 1 postdoc positions available on the RADHEART project. In beautiful Bergen and with an amazing project leader!
And one opening for a Phd Research fellow in the Study of Religion (Ancient Forms of #Christianity)
#AncientBluesky #sblaar #AcRel #AncientChristianity
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
Also two exciting PhD fellowships connected to the project: one in the Study of Religion (Hebrew Bible/Ancient Forms of Judaism) #AncientBluesky #sblaar #aarsbl #AcRel
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
Another postdoc position in the Study of Religion @ UiBergen - this one for a research project on strong individual commitment in ancient forms of #Christianity, as part of the big ERC project RADHEART led by @laurafeldt.bsky.social ๐
#AncientBluesky #AcRel #SBL www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
Join us on Wednesday for this great talk! @uomsoss.bsky.social @uomsalc.bsky.social @official-uom.bsky.social
Come work with us in Geography at Manchester!
We are looking for a permanent Lecturer in Physical Geography, particularly in the field of peatland science
Closing date 27/03/2025
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
Looking forward to being part of this interdisciplinary event in Bristol on March 11-12, bringing together academics, artists, and filmmakers to discuss how Japanese religious practices, media, and the arts have been shaped by and responded to the 3/11 tragedy. theartofrecovery.blogs.bristol.ac.uk
Happening on Friday this week!
East Asian Studies- FeRN seminar next week! Ran Zwigenberg (Pennsylvania State University) "Nuclear Minds: Anxiety and Transformation in A-bomb Psychology" @uomsalc.bsky.social @official-uom.bsky.social
events.manchester.ac.uk/event/event:...
Happening on Wednesday this week!
Another public history project on our map. Minna de Honkoku (Japan) is a collaborative transcription project that converts historical Japanese cursive scripts into modern readable text.
Thank you @emitozawa.bsky.social
honkoku.org/index_en.html
www.google.com/maps/d/edit?...
#Japan #PublicHistory
๐จ Buddhist Studies Job Opening๐จ
Full Professorship in Buddhist Modernisms @ EPHE-PSL in Paris. "Open to scholars working on modern developments in Buddhism since the 19th c. w/ grounding in an Asian region incl. Tibet, Mongolia, & Himalaya. Teaching in French."
www.ephe.psl.eu/recrutement-...
Coming up in a couple of weeks @uomsalc.bsky.social @official-uom.bsky.social ! Looking forward to discussing affective entanglements, bodies and temporalities, atmosphere and, of course, fear!
They are so lucky to have you!
Join @baffellierica.bsky.social, Minoru Asada and Angelo Cangelosi on 28 February for their symposium on 'Robotics, Religion and Ethics', presented in partnership with @official-uom.bsky.social and the Japan Society of the Promotion of Science (JSPS) ๐ค
๐Tickets: www.tickettailor.com/events/unive...
Great job opportunity at The John Rylands Library
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
Applications are now open for the Simon and Hallsworth Fellowships @official-uom.bsky.social:
tinyurl.com/ypxjkce5
4 x Simon Fellowships
5 x Hallsworth Fellowships/Hallsworth Chinese Political Economy Fellowships
5 x Hallsworth Fellowships External Engagement and Impact
Closing date: 7 March 2025.
๐จ Full time permanent lecturer position in Japanese culture and language (literature, film, performing arts, art, visual/material culture) at ULB in Brussels.
Deadline: March 1, 2025.
Candidate must be able to teach in French within 3 years of hiring.
cwfront.ulb.ac.be/greffe/modul...
Full time professorship in Japanese studies at Universitรฉ libre de Bruxelles in Belgium.
English here: cwfront.ulb.ac.be/greffe/modul...
En franรงais ici: cwfront.ulb.ac.be/greffe/modul...
A month to go! Only a few tickets left. @uomsalc.bsky.social @uomcreativemcr.bsky.social @official-uom.bsky.social
Poster advertising a seminar with abstract design. Content: Yutaka Yoshida (Cardiff University) and Yoko Demelius (Turku Universities) "Technologies of the YouTuber Self: Digital Vigilantism, Masculinities, and the Attention Economy in Neoliberal Japan." February 14, 2025 4:30pm, Sam Alex_A116
Our next EAS seminar will be on February 14.
Yutaka Yoshida (Cardiff University) and Yoko Demelius (Turku Universities)
"Technologies of the YouTuber Self: Digital Vigilantism, Masculinities, and the Attention Economy in Neoliberal Japan."
tinyurl.com/5cbs98su @uomsalc.bsky.social